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by Dr. Ian Cutress on November 5, 2020 9:01 AM ESTGaming Tests: Chernobylite
Despite the advent of recent TV shows like Chernobyl, recreating the situation revolving around the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the concept of nuclear fallout and the town of Pripyat have been popular settings for a number of games – mostly first person shooters. Chernobylite is an indie title that plays on a science-fiction survival horror experience and uses a 3D-scanned recreation of the real Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. It involves challenging combat, a mix of free exploration with crafting and non-linear story telling. While still in early access, it is already picking up plenty of awards.
I picked up Chernobylite while still in early access, and was impressed by its in-game benchmark, showcasing complex building structure with plenty of trees and structures where aliasing becomes important. The in-game benchmark is an on-rails experience through the scenery, covering both indoor and outdoor scenes – it ends up being very CPU limited in the way it is designed. We have taken an offline version of Chernobylite to use in our tests, and we are testing the following settings combinations:
- 360p Low, 1440p Low, 4K Low, 1080p Max
We do as many runs within 10 minutes per resolution/setting combination, and then take averages.
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All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
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ExarKun333 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
And 'Hammer' 4-5 years before then, to credit AMD then as well. It has been a long time since we had something this exctiing.lmcd - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
IMO Sandy Bridge was this exciting. The IPC on that release was absolutely insane compared to Nehalem.ingwe - Friday, November 6, 2020 - link
Agreed. That definitely seemed like the last big excitement though. Can't wait to upgrade!Slash3 - Saturday, November 7, 2020 - link
Yep. My case was a bit different, but I went from a launch date 2600K which had been running at 5GHz to a 3950X last November. It was a pretty solid single core upgrade (although not as dramatic as you'd think since the 2600K was so topped out - CPU-Z SC score went from 478 to 545) but the multi core performance obviously blew it entirely out of the water.AMD's 5950X, though? Single core CPU-Z score is ~680. Six eighty! Stock!
The jump in single core performance between the 5950X and the 3950X is almost -double- what it was in going from my 2600K to the 3950X. That's absolutely monstrous.
Spunjji - Sunday, November 8, 2020 - link
Fair point there, Slash. This may indeed be the best thing since Sandy, and damn was I excited when that released!citan x - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Micro center had some in stock at the store even though there was a huge line to enter when I got there 5 minutes before opening. However, they only had 5600x and 5800x in stock. I wanted a 5950x and they said they never got those in stock. I have not found any 5950x in stock anywhere.charlesg - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
Yeah I'm wondering if the 5950x is actually available yet? Or if some bots had insider info on pages to buy them the instant they were available...Holliday75 - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
I am seeing them listed on eBay starting a little over $1,000 and going up to $2,000.nandnandnand - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
The listings say "Locate in Store - Unavailable Online", with a small amount of 5800X and 5600X available at my store. So no bots, you have to show up in person. It also says "Limit 1 per household" although I imagine you could get a couple of friends with different credit cards and get 1 of each model per person.nandnandnand - Thursday, November 5, 2020 - link
I can't tell you when it will be back in stock, but that's not unusual for day 1.